2008-2009 Academic Catalog - Queens University of Charlotte

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UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
HIST 304 Ancient Rome
A study of the history of Rome, from its founding to the disintegration of the Roman Empire in
the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. Prerequisite: History 201 or permission of the instructor.
Spring Term, even years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 305 Medieval History
An investigation of the thousand years known as the Middle Ages: the world of castles,
cathedrals and universities; ladies and knights; peasants and burghers; dragons and unicorns.
Prerequisite: HIST 201 or permission of the instructor. Fall Term, odd years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 306 Early Modern Europe
A survey of the history of Europe from the Renaissance to 1789. Topics include the 16th
century rupture in Christendom, the growth of seaborne empires and national states, the
scientific revolution and the Enlightenment. Prerequisite: HIST 201. Fall Term, odd years.
3 Hrs.
HIST 307 History of Latin America
A survey of the forces and events which have shaped Latin America experiences from the
sixteenth century to the present. Spring Term, even years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 309 Contemporary Europe
An investigation of today's Europe, from the First World War to the present. Topics include the
world wars, the holocaust, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Cold War and the rise of the
European Union. Prerequisites: HIST 202. Fall Term, odd years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 310 Ideas and Imagination Europe
This course explores European intellectual and cultural history from the eighteenth century to
the present. Though the course focuses on intellectuals and ideas, it places both in a wider
cultural context. While the course focuses especially on written texts, it will include materials
from music, the visual arts, and cinema. Movements to be considered range from the Enlightenment
and Romanticism, to Realism and Surrealism, to Modernism and Post-Modernism.
Prerequisite: HIST 202. Spring Term, even years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 315 Oral History
Examination of ways in which cultures were preserved in the past (folklore, folklife, handicrafts
etc.) and the study of and practice in the methodology of gathering and preserving historical
information in oral form. Summer Term, even years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 330 British History
An investigation of the British historical experience through the study of the key moments and
personalities which have shaped British history from William the Conqueror through the Tudors
and Stuarts, to the Victorians and the present. Prerequisite: HIST 202. Fall Term, even years.
3 Hrs.
HIST 331 Russian History
An investigation of the Russian experience through the study of the key moments and personalities
which have shaped Russian history from Kievian Russia to the present. Prerequisite: HIST
202. Spring Term, odd years. 3 Hrs.
HIST 332 German History
An examination of the experience of the German-speaking peoples from the devastation of the
seventeenth century Thirty Years War, through eighteenth century Enlightenment, to the emergence
of Germany as a major power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite:
HIST 202. Fall Term, even years. 3 Hrs.